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Nature, Technology, and Daily Life in a Wartime Borderland
Drawing on court records, memorials, and treatises in Chinese, Korean, and Manchu, this project examines how reliability was discussed and attempted d
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Authors' Voices on Records and Radio 1889-1932
The role of media—and especially of the phonograph and gramophone—in storing and disseminating literary recitation and reading aloud from 1889 onward
Forging Technology for Metals Processing in the Pre-Qin Period
In early Ancient China, natural copper and aerosiderite were made into different kinds of articles by forging techniques, such as copper tomahawk
On the Genealogy of Mescaline (1887–1919)
According to Sasha Shulgin, Mescaline has become the “meter” for psychedelic substances, as it was the first of its kind to be approached scientifical
The Physician's Album Amicorum: Humanist Cultures of Knowledge Networking
The genre of album amicorum, or Stammbuch, or “traveling friendship book,” became popular in the mid-sixteenth century in Protestant circles, where a
Origin and Development of Quantum Cryptography
After the German physicist Max Planck first raised the concept of quantum in 1900, the study of quantum physics was advanced through the efforts of ma
Seas of Fire—Earthquakes, Disasters, and Japan in the Twentieth Century
My project focuses on Japanese scientists' efforts to translate their uncertain knowledge of the risks and hazards that earthquakes posed to the
Translating Medicine in the Premodern World
In recent years, translation (broadly defined) has emerged as a central research strand. Explorations of the epistemic process and impact of knowledge
Historicizing Global Mental Health: Psychiatric Epidemiology as a Case Study of the Circulation of Knowledge post 1945
Although it provides the only indicators of the prevalence of mental disorders in the population, the history of psychiatric epidemiology is not well
Therapeutic Commodities: Medicine and Food in the Exchange between Asia and Europe, 1500–1800
Therapeutic commodities—goods considered valuable for the improvement of health—have local as well as global histories. Examples of commodities—tea, g